PlayTV : 1.21 update released

ReviewsArePolitics - 45 days 5 hours ago

This is a substitute for Europeans. If they sold it in the US, it would canibalize the sales of PSN and Netflix. The reason they sell this in Europe is probably because there are so many countries over there that it may make more sense to team up with someone and offer this.

I am just speculating, so I could be completely wrong.

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Christopher_Walken - 45 days 5 hours ago

Whatever it may be I still want it. :D

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Perkel - 45 days 3 hours ago

and they sell it only on few countries... you reason fail.

video store is coming to eu too

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RussDeBuss - 45 days 1 hour ago

port for HD is nice, only problem is no HD is being broadcast over terestrial tv yet, early 2010 the roll out starts but wont cover the whole country str8 away

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PLAYINB3YOND - 45 days ago

PlayTV can do HD its just Sony are waiting for HD broadcasting to become the norm, istead of it being only for people with satellite dishes ( Sky + FreeSat). I heard 2010 is when the UK is thinking about using HD as standard and then 3D will become the new HD for Sky (Sky 3D). Furthermore the only reason it has not come to the US is because Sony are yet to strike a deal with US broadcasters, as soon as they have it will come.

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kharma45 - 45 days ago

PlayTV in it's current iteration cannot do HD in the UK as it has DVB tuners in it, and Freeview HD in the UK will require DVB-T2.

For PlayTV to be HD Ready in the UK, new hardware is required.

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facelike - 45 days ago

In the U.S., we're about to get Netflix. Maybe not the same but a decent substitute for Play TV.

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Godmars290 - 44 days 21 hours ago

They don't sell it in the US because the non-centralized business structure of US cable companies makes it prohibitive.

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Biphter - 44 days 19 hours ago

I just wish Play TV would work with MPEG4 as thats what most of the rest or Europe use instead of MPEG2 in UK. Here in Denmark we are switching over to Digital next week (1st November) and this has already happened in Sweden. The UK is very much behind in terms of Digital progression, but has far more channels on Freeview. We can only see 3 channels through PlayTV in its current MPEG2 only state. Give it DVB-C and MPEG4 capability an I think ALOT more European countries could benefit from it.

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OhNoez - 45 days ago

Its better to live in the US than in some forgotten EU country that doesnt mean sh!t to giant company as SONY. ALl the countries have damn different laws, regualtions, and all the copyright sh!t, it takes years to make some features availaible in for non-UK/GER/FRA gamers.
So yea consider yourself lucky.
Peace. PS3/360 FTW either way! lulz

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Shadow Flare - 44 days 23 hours ago

Did you ever go to school? Wtf are you trying to say in your comment? If you were trying to knock the UK, just remember alot of brilliant playstation related stuff comes out of the UK. Such as littlebigplanet, wipeout, home, eyepet, singstar, heavenly sword, and elsewhere in europe come games like killzone. Europe is very important to sony. Especially since thats where most of their sales come from

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Ju - 44 days 23 hours ago

They seem to sell it in Germany/Austria AFAIS (anybody there tried that ?) and it should work wherever you can receive a DVB-T signal. So its not UK only.

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novcze - 44 days 21 hours ago

@ Shadow Flare

... no, he doesn`t trying to knock the UK. He was trying to be sarcastic in language he doesn`t know properly. He is just angry, because PlayTV is not available in his country. Although PlayTV should work anywhere with DVB-T signal.

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VictorSullivan - 44 days 23 hours ago

Except Sony's goddamn peripheral wasn't dropped a year later.

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